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A Festival of creation
The kunstenFESTIVALdesArts wants to serve as a springboard for a new generation of artistic talent. Big names such as Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham and Claude Régy work alongside young hopefuls like Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski, who toured Paris, Rouen, Munich, Amsterdam and Lisbon with her opera Ming Ruo, or Ea Sola, who first performed at Festival '95 with her company from Vietnam.
In May 1998, 18 of the Festival's 28 projects were world premières. After the Festival these were performed all over the world – in the Sao Paulo Festival, the Festival d'Automne à Paris, the Festival d'Avignon, the Festival international d'Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam, the Edinburgh Festival, the Wiener Festwochen in Vienna, London's Covent Garden, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. These tours add to the international influence of artists from the Festival and from Brussels. For example, the 1998 Festival had not even closed before Iets op Bach, a production created by Alain Platel for the Festival's opening, was a hit in Paris and before L'Orfeo, directed by Trisha Brown, was performed at London's Covent Garden.
Four Festivals on, the kunstenFESTIVALdesArts is seen as a launching pad for contemporary creation in theatrical arts, a place to discover new talent and artists who take an innovative approach to their work. This fact is borne out by the large number of foreign theatre directors and festival organisers who come to the Festival on the look-out themselves. |
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